I think you're largely dead on. "DEI" programs are affirmative action dressed, along with an authoritarian undertone. > "Reparations are the right thing to do.

I think you're largely dead on. "DEI" programs are affirmative action dressed, along with an authoritarian undertone. > "Reparations are the right thing to do. Offering opportunity to those we have taken them from" is justice. Couching reparations as inherently being just, which perhaps you didn't intend, is where I disagree with you. The idea of reparations is pretty contentious[1]. I think that very fact is exactly why these affirmative action programs have to be dressed up, and faux-support has to be forced, as much as it is. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/261722/redress-slavery-americans-oppose-cash-reparations.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/261722/redress-slavery-american...